On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 04:03:14AM -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote: > Hi, > > My computer has twice spontaneously gone into this mode where it > says things like... > > hda status error drive not ready > ideo: reset: success > end-repquest: i/o error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector 2424 Sounds like the harddrive is sick, or bad cables (unlikely).
> ...(btw a friend says i should upgrade to debian testing. the stable > version i use is too conservative and the testing version works well) > ...i did a search on google groups (and stragely my browser is working > exceedingly more slowly than usual) and it suggested running fsck. So > as super user I did some mucking about like this: Yes.. If you want any semblance of modern apps, you want to use testing. > debian:/home/bill# fsck /dev/hda > fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... > fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda > > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 > filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 > filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock > is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: > e2fsck -b 8193 <device> > ...hrm....sounds like greek to me but you'd think it would recognize hda. > ls /dev/hda* returns methinks 21 items from hda to hda1, hda2, ...hda20. I does recognize the drive partition, but not the filesystem on it. > debian:/dev# fsck /dev/hda7 > fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > /dev/hda7 is mounted. > > WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause > SEVERE filesystem damage. > > Do you really want to continue (y/n)? no Running fsck on a mounted filesystem can cause serious data corruption and other headaches. It's trying to tell you this. -Phil Carinhas -- .--------------------------------------------------------. | Dr. Philip A. Carinhas | pac(at)fortuitous.com | | Fortuitous Technologies Inc. | http://fortuitous.com | | Linux Consulting & Training | Tel : 1-512-218-9561 | `--------------------------------------------------------' _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
